Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition 27:35
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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The Vanishing Safety Net:
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) at 15 Years
with
Tim Casey, attorney, Legal Momentum and longtime welfare advocate
In August 1996, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Act, replacing Aid to Families with Dependant Children with TANF as the national welfare program for needy Americans. Fifteen years later, the truth is that TANF has shredded the safety net. It has been a disaster for poor families, the majority of whom are headed by single mothers. Benefit receipt has fallen from three-fifths of poor children pre-reform to just one-fifth of poor children post-reform, and benefit amounts have plummeted. The shriveled safety net condemns millions of women and children to poverty
so extreme that many are deprived sufficient food, housing, and utility services. As TANF turns 15, we'll look at the necessity to restore and extend adequate benefits and surmise what is likely to happen to the reauthorization of TANF which will be before the Congress in September.
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Dominoâs Pizza Delivers Slavery With A Smile
With
Pastor Robert Brashear, Sweatshop Free NY
Carlos Rodriquez, Justice Will Be Served
Vincent Cao, Justice Will Be Served
Dominoâs moguls giddily reap profits off the backs of workers, watching their
corporate sales surge to $1.57 billion in 2010. Patrick Doyle, President raked in $5.7 million in 2010 and Dave Melton, NYC franchise had $4 million in yearly sales. Meanwhile Dominoâs workers work up to 78 hours a week, but many are paid for only half of these hours at $4.40 an hour. Now that Domino workers are organizing Domino who refuses to comply with labor laws is retaliating against the workers. But, Justice Will Be Served!
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